The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 189, 7 August 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1878.

We are indebted to the Government for a lengthy, telegraphic report of the Financial Statement delivered in the House of Representatives last night, which we shall publish to-morrow more fully than we are able to do to-day. We must tender our acknosvledgements to the telegraphic operators for the very correct manner in which the message— which contains 16,000 words, and would, if printed in full, fill twelve of our columns was transmitted and taken off. The first portion reached Nelson at half-past ten, and the operators were kept busily employed in transcribing it until half -past four this morning. The Custom house officers were on the move early this morning, and to the astonishment of the proprietors of, and the employes at, the various breweries, they presented themselves just before business hours with neatly printed tickets suitable for casks of all sizes, stating the amount of duty payable on their contents at three halfpence per gallon, tbe amount of the new tax imposed by the House of Representatives last night. From telegrams received from other parts of the colony we learn that the brewers do not approve of this at all, aud a meeting of those in the business in Wellington was to be held to-day to consider the matter. An abstract of the new Electoral and Bribery Bills introduced into the House by the Hon Mr Stout will be found on the fourth page. In comequence of the Taranaki being detained with the English mails, the Wanaka, which leaves here on Friday afternoon, will proceed no further South than Wellington, but will go from thence direct to Taranaki and Manukau, in order to enable her to take up the Taranaki's running. Passengers and shippers will therefore require to have their

f ~ — — — — *■ luggage anel cargo tfor Taranaki and Manukau on board the Wanaka on Friday. At the Police Court this morning, after half an honrlhad been; spent in hunting Up Justices- L Stfiitd- Esq.,. tt Bjt., Bnd G ; .de- y u febt^i^erj-psij.J.P ;!tobS: .their peat? -oil the Bench, and the following cases were heard: — Dr Marks was charged with firing a gun within the city boundary. Mr Bunny, who appeared for him, admitted the offence, stating that the defendant was shooting a fowl in his own garden without knowing that he was committing a breach of the bye-laws. Fined 6s and costs.— Raffy James Gilbert was charged by tiis wife, Elizabeth Gilbert; wbb holds a" protection ordei* against hini, with assaulting her. Mr Acton Adariis, who appeared for the complainant, asked that tbe defendant might be ordered to find sureties of the peace. Ordered to be bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself iu £'50, and two sureties iu £25 each. The sureties not being forthcoming defendant was committed to gaol. — Thomas Foy was charged by Daniel Stewart with shooting without a license. Mr Broad declined to hear the case ou the ground that he was a member of the Acclimatisation Society, which had offered a reward for the conviction of offenders against the Profcedtioh df Animals Act. Thte liiise was therefore adjourned until next Wednesday. The Rev. R. Bavin delivered a very eloquent and interesting lecture on " The Martyr Church of Madagascar," at Spring Grove last Monday evening, Mr Green in the chair, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, there was a very fair attendance. The choir sang a few selections, and after a vote of thanks to the lecturer and chairman, the meeting lermiuated, all having speut a very enjoyable evening. We commend tr e following to the notice of our Cify Councillors, who may deem it worth while to make further enquiries with reference to the materia! alluded to i— It is gratifying to learn (says the Melbourne Argus') that Melbourne is showing oiher Australian cities the wny in the direction of foot-path making. The fame of our excellent tarred pavement, which we now make at a cost of 2s. a square yard, aud which is in all essential particulars as serviceable as Caithness slate or bluestone flagging, which would cost 10s a yard or mure, has spread far and wide ; and some time since the Corporation of Newcastle, New South Wales, wrote to the Melbourne Council, asking its assistance towards the introduction of the tarred pavement in their streets. To this application the City Council willingly assented, and a quantity of footpath material (all but the tar, which will be obtained ou the spot) has been prepared for export to Newcastle, whither it will be accompanied by a skilled Corporation workman, who will teach the Newcastle people how to lay it down. If the merits of our new footpath system were known in foreign countries, it would probably come into extensive use, not less on account of its excellence thau of its cheapness ; and it would be for us au agreeable circumstance if the citizens of Loudon and Paris and New York were to become giatefully fmuliar with improved footpaths, which they would come to speak of as the " Melbourne side-walk." The great reward offered and in hand for the first discoverer of " Pkei-etual Motiojc " is growing so rusty that it is likely to be applied in a more hopeful channel. The latest valuable discovery in the art of medicine, as proved by irresistible and overwhelming testimony, is the marvellous " Ghollah's Ghkai* Indian Cuius," which can be had throughout New Zealand .of all Chemists.— Kew, Victoria, October, 26 1871. Sir, — Having treated my owu case of a very severe Rheumatic, attack in my leg and ankle. I can testify to the efficacy of your Ghollah's Rheumatism Mixture. It required only one bottle and a half to completely cure me. I fouud the cure most perfect and extraordinary, and have had no return of pain since taking your medicine. I have much pleasure in allowing you to use this testimonial as you think fit. Your obedient servant, (Signed) J. P. Roeudck, Chemist.

'-'"II I — '■ —I— The duty on Australian wines to be reduced from 4s to 2s per gallon. The duty on sparkling tuP-? 3 to he increased from 4s to 6s per gallon. ..Ad valorem. to be qhanged into specific rai©.! $ the Jollo wipg articles i —Woolpacks, corn - ' sacksj flour bags, caf bo'uate 61 soda',- cfeatn.pf j tartar, tartaric acid, fish (potted and pre- i served) jams, bottled fruits, mustard, sauces, pickles, starch and blue, lead piping, nails, naptha, wrapping paper, paper bags, boots anel shoes. The duty on the following articles is to be abolished i— Grain, flour, maizeua, corn fioui*: sago; arrotrfootj bacon and hams, butter diid ,. cheese: artizaps' atndbuilding tools, cart shaftGj spoliesi a;sles rind a^lerahns,* photographic goods, baskets and wickerwafe, per- '} ambulators, steel, irou feucing wire, paints (wet or dry), and on 24 minor articles of commerce. DUTIES TO COME INTO FORCE TO-DAY. In addition to the tax ou beer, the following duties take effect from this morning :— Bi-Carbonate of soda, 2s 3d per cwt. Cream of tartar. Id per lb. Tartaric acid,- Id per lb. Fisti (potted and preserved), Id per lb., or f'eptited package Of that weight SardiueS, id pet half tit! Jam, jellies, and marmalade, id per lb,- or reputed package of that weight Bottled fruit, ls per dozen i Mustard, 2d per lb. Pickles, quarts (or reputed package of that quantity), 2s per dozen Pickles, pints ditto, Is per dozen Sauce, 2s per dozen reputed pints, and so on in proportion per dozen of greater or lesser reputed quantities Starch, 4s per cwt. Blue, ld per lb. Lead and composition piping, 2s per cwt. Naiis, 2s per cwt. Wrapping paper (brown), 2s per cwt. ; other kinds, 3s per cwt. Paper bags, 6s per cwt. Woolpacks, 2s 6d per dozen. Corn sacks, 9d per dozen. Flour bags, M per do^en. Boots and Shores— Men's No. 0 and upward, 12s per dozen; Youth's Nos. 2 to 5,105; Boys' Nos. 7 to 1,6d; Women's Nos. 3 and upwards, 8s ; Girls' Nos. 7 to 10, ss; Children's Nos. 0 to 6, 3s; Women's lasting and stuff boots, 8s; goloshes of all kinds, 2s 6d. Slippers —men's, women's, and children's, No. 7 and upwards, ss. Wines, sparkling, 6s per gallon. ESTIMATED INCOME FROM NEW TAXES. It is expected that the following will be tbe result of the proposed new taxes : —

The nominations for the Canterbury Cup and C. J. C. Handicap, closed on Wednesday. There are twenty-one nominations for the Cup, as against twenty-four last year. This deficiency however, is more than made up for, by the increase in the Handicap entries, which number fifty-two, showing an increase of thirteen on the thirty-nine nominated for this event last year. At Ponsonby, in the Auckland Provincial district, a Mr Peacock brought forward a scheme for introducing 300 families from Madeira to farm and cultivate vineyards north of Auckland. The project will be brought under the consideration of the General Assembly by the Government. Mr Vincent Pyke, in a recent address to his constituents, expressed his opinion of Customs duties iu the following terms:— l hold, and always have held, that Customhouse duties are the invention of the Evil One. I believe that the Almighty planted in different parts of the world various necessary products, in order that all people should be brought together with these products till all mankind became a universal brotherhood, and that the Evil One crept in and instituted Custom-houses. This is neither free trade nor protection. If you put a tax on boots, j why tax the raw leather? You may say it is desirable to tax clothing to give an oppor- j tunity to people to make it; then why tax the cloth of which clothing is made? ;The intention is simply to screw as much out of the people as they know how by indirect means, so that the people may not know how I they are being screwed. j Under the heading " Saturday's Scraps,' ' I " Autolycus," a writer well-known in Nelson, has commenced a series of humorous contributions to the Neio Zealatider. He introduces himself thus pleasantly : — To the readers of the New Zealander : — Permit me, in the j politest and briefest terms, to introduce my- I self as one whom luckless fate has led into the thorny paths of literature. One who is compelled to tremble at the nod of all who read. Condemned to burn the midnight oil, that he may be enabled to iudulge in the midday meal, and cultivate Belles Lettres, because his sire left him nothing more remunerative to cultivate, and this remissness of the parent has never been atoned for by the ability or bonne fortune of the son. Having stated why I write, it is necessary to explain how I write, and the public may take my word for it that the style is very middling. I have no originality, and if by the merest chance a good thing should occur in my contribution, depend upon thafc ifc is borrowed from one of my fellow writers, whose wealth can well afford to assist my poverty of imagination. In this, I take it, I am no worse than the orators, whose thundering eloquence will resound for the next few weeks in the House of Representatives. Did ever anyone ever yet take the trouble to analyse a parliamentary oration ? I opine the result of the analysis would give the following fractional results :— Pilfered Proverbs, parts in the 100, 10; Purloined Psalms, 15; Hackeyed quotations from poets, 15; Inappropriate quotations from political economists, 20; Scraps of former speeches preserved in memory, 25; Bad jokes from jest books, 7£; Paragraphs from newspaper, 7. Total, 99 i. The balance— the cobweb thread that hinds the foregoing parts — is original, and for the sake of the hearers it were well if that could be dispensed with. If then the notes upon passing events that I purpose from time to time to publish, are uo worse than the speeches of members of our colonial I legislature, 1 may surely be allowed to move \ that they be printed.

Land Tax ,£IOO,OOO Income Tax from Companies 10,000 Beer Tax 30,000 Tax on Sparkling Wiues ... 1,000 Total additional Taxation ... £141,000 Total remission of duties ... £1 17,000 Margin in favor of Revenue . . . £24,000